I think the explanation was something to do with the heat affecting the rails it was June and the train was coming from Miami. This topic has been closed to new posts due to inactivity. We hope you'll join the conversation by posting to an open topic or starting a new one. We remove posts that do not follow our posting guidelines, and we reserve the right to remove any post for any reason.
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Unlike Japan, France, Spain, or China the country has not committed to building modern high-speed rail infrastructure. But the operational aspects of American passenger rail are also curiously primitive. In other words, we don't use the infrastructure that we do have in a remotely efficient way or apply international best practices to railroad management.
In general, once one knows on which track a train will arrive, one goes to the adjacent platform and waits.
When the train arrives, the doors will open and people who need to disembark will get off. Then you go through the open door and hop on the train. At smaller stations such as New Haven, New Carrollton, or New Rochelle, Amtrak uses the same boarding procedure used by foreign intercity railroad operators and by commuter rail and mass transit rail systems in the United States.
However, at larger stations, Amtrak chooses to ignore years of accumulated human wisdom about boarding trains. You wait for your track to be called and then need to queue up — with each passenger presenting a ticket to an Amtrak staff member before you are allowed onto a platform. This is roughly how one boards an airplane in all countries, but it is not normally how one boards a train. Airplanes typically only have one door, which makes single-file queuing unavoidable. What's more, trains typically use either turnstiles at station entrances for mass transit or on-board conductor checks for intercity trains to verify payment.
This makes a ticket inspection queue unnecessary, while the multiple doors factor makes an inspection queue burdensome. They seem to be aware. As noted, Amtrak employs standard train boarding methods at many stations, offering a clear indication that they are aware that trains have multiple doors.
What's more, Amtrak employs conductors who check tickets on trains, indicating that they are aware that there is no need for pre-boarding payment verification.
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